How to format your references using the Geobiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geobiology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Smaglik P (2004) Patching a leaky pipeline. Nature 427, 657.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bauleo PM, Martino JR (2009) The dawn of the particle astronomy era in ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Nature 458, 847–851.

A journal article with 3 authors

Redford KH, Jensen DB, Breheny JJ (2012) Ecology. Integrating the captive and the wild. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338, 1157–1158.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang Z, Yao Y, Wang X, Yue W, Chen L, Zhang XX (2013) Bending-induced electromechanical coupling and large piezoelectric response in a micromachined diaphragm. Scientific reports 3, 3127.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Héno R, Chandelier L (2014) 3D Modeling of Buildings. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Linkov I, Steevens J (eds.) (2009) Nanomaterials: Risks and Benefits. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou Q, Liu W, Long Y, Sun C, Jiang G (2015) Toxicological Effects and Mechanisms of Silver Nanoparticles. In: Silver Nanoparticles in the Environment (eds. Liu J, Jiang G). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 109–138.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Geobiology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Red, Yellow, Pink And Green: How The World’s Languages Name The Rainbow. IFLScience.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2010) District of Columbia Public Education: Agencies Have Enhanced Internal Controls Over Federal Payments for School Improvement, But More Consistent Monitoring Needed ( No. GAO-11-16). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Bunkley RL (2010) A mentoring program for adolescents in a placement facility: A grant proposal project (Doctoral dissertation).

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Crow K (2003) A Bus Stop May Disappear, And Some Old Bones Groan. New York Times 145.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2004; Bauleo & Martino, 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bauleo & Martino, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geobiology
Abbreviation	Geobiology
ISSN (print)	1472-4677
ISSN (online)	1472-4669
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science